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The Tech Report: News — ... segment DRAM prices plunge 18 percent in two weeks China to make foreign firms reveal secret info DailyTech reports IBM looks to beat Intel, AMD to 22nm node with chip breakthrough Engadget reports Sony & Toshiba to begin mass producing 45nm cell processor in 2009 cheaper, slimmer PS3s to come? TG Daily reports AMD to manufacture 40nm CPUs at TSMC in 2009? iTnews Australia reports video game GPUs find use in biological modeling Techgage and TG Daily report hp rumored to be closing VoodooPC; Rahul Sood says hp ...

HP to kill off Voodoo PC?
The Tech Report: News — ... into its consumer business. The move was going to lump Voodoo's boutique PCs together with HP's Pavilion and Compaq Presario systems, and it would see HP take care of marketing, sales, and support. At the time, Voodoo founder Rahul Sood praised the change, saying it would make Voodoo systems more accessible. Now, Techgage claims HP's plans for Voodoo might be a little more radical than that . This new report mentions that an e-mail is circulating within HP with word of impending layoffs. Techgage elaborates, "VoodooPC itself wouldn't have that many employees to begin with, so ...

HP to close VoodooPC?
DV Hardware — ... Techgage heard from a reliable source that HP is planning to close its VoodooPC division. According to an insider close to the situation, VoodooPC as we know it might not be around for much longer. An e-mail is apparently being circulated throughout the company noting layoffs, although the number of people to be culled is unclear. However, VoodooPC itself wouldn't have that many employees to begin with, so any layoffs could be a sign of what's to come. In addition, it's become known that VoodooPC has been returning product to their ...

Does System Building Have Anything To Do With Building Systems?
PWNING 9-5 — ... Buzz buzz buzz "HP Shutting Down Voodoo!" was the headline burning across the net this week (power supplies being returned are apparently indicative of armageddon these days). As the whole story got shaken down, it turns out all the noise was most likely instigated as employees started getting layed off from Voodoo's Calgary facility, which is probably the forerunner of that location getting severely downsized or even shut down completely. What does it all mean? Phil McKinney, HP's CTO, explained that it's the start of Voodoo's "integration ...